Grip Perished
My bat has just had it's last couple of matches, and have now moved onto a cheaper 'back up' bat I had in the cupboard that I got for a bargain ($10 from a friend for a lower grade Kookaburra Genesis, still a very good bat for my uses). I don't have the money for a new bat right now, if I get a new one I want it to be a much better one that will last me quite a while and suits my purposes, most likely to be rather expensive.
I have discovered a problem though. I used the bat in the nets, and quite often it came along with me to a game as a spare bat to be used by someone, it normally just sat in the sun the whole time. Then I stopped using it altogether and put it in the cupboard for safer keeping. Now that I have come back to it I have found the grip has literally turned to liquid.
It is unusable as it is, I found out the hard way that the grip sticks permanently to everything. It has also run down very slowly onto the sticker at the top of the bat, and being a lower Genesis the whole back of the bat is covered by a sticker and it has run onto that as well. Water and scrubbing doesn't work to get it off, and I was wondering on some tips. Lately I just have it hanging upside down above paper so it doesn't make anymore uncleanable stains on my rental house.
It has lost pretty much all resemblance of a grip, just a mass of sticky 'goo' like substance that runs slowly.
Wondering if something like metho or turpentine will get it off, and how to do that without harming the bat at all.
No hurry though, out with an injury for the time being so I have plenty of time to toil around with it.
My bat has just had it's last couple of matches, and have now moved onto a cheaper 'back up' bat I had in the cupboard that I got for a bargain ($10 from a friend for a lower grade Kookaburra Genesis, still a very good bat for my uses). I don't have the money for a new bat right now, if I get a new one I want it to be a much better one that will last me quite a while and suits my purposes, most likely to be rather expensive.
I have discovered a problem though. I used the bat in the nets, and quite often it came along with me to a game as a spare bat to be used by someone, it normally just sat in the sun the whole time. Then I stopped using it altogether and put it in the cupboard for safer keeping. Now that I have come back to it I have found the grip has literally turned to liquid.
It is unusable as it is, I found out the hard way that the grip sticks permanently to everything. It has also run down very slowly onto the sticker at the top of the bat, and being a lower Genesis the whole back of the bat is covered by a sticker and it has run onto that as well. Water and scrubbing doesn't work to get it off, and I was wondering on some tips. Lately I just have it hanging upside down above paper so it doesn't make anymore uncleanable stains on my rental house.
It has lost pretty much all resemblance of a grip, just a mass of sticky 'goo' like substance that runs slowly.
Wondering if something like metho or turpentine will get it off, and how to do that without harming the bat at all.
No hurry though, out with an injury for the time being so I have plenty of time to toil around with it.
